Linux native AMD64 platform support and Mozilla plug-in

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Max,
> 
> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 14:07 +0000, Massimo Perga wrote:
>>   I'm writing to this ML after having asked to the generic
>> "discussion" ML about Linux native AMD64 platform support and Mozilla
>> plug-in. In particular, they were mentioning gcjwebplugin and its
>> support for OpenJDK.
>>
>> Could you please tell me what's the status of the development and if
>> you need my help to eventually improve it ?
> 
> For IcedTea, the OpenJDK/GNU Classpath hibrid shipped by GNU/Linux
> distros we did already convert gcjwebplugin to work with openjdk.
> http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=21 That works pretty nicely. It was
> integrated into IcedTea 1.3
> http://langel.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/icedtea-13-released/
> And now actually ships with Fedora RawHide and in other distros
> http://spindazzle.org/greenblog/index.php?/archives/73-IcedTea-is-Fedorable.html
> 
> The main thing missing is liveconnect/javascript interaction. I thought
> Tom had a plan for that involving Rhino (the javascript implementation
> written in java), but I don't really remember the details (and I am
> hoping Tom will correct me if I am wrong).

I'm rewriting gcjwebplugin to be a full XPCOM component called 
IcedTeaPlugin.  So far I have all the functionality of gcjwebplugin, 
plus all the boilerplate required for Javascript-to-Java communication.

> 
> For now there is one open bug report against it involving percentage
> height/width params:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76

This should be easier to do in IcedTeaPlugin, but it would be nice if 
someone fixed it in gcjwebplugin, since IcedTeaPlugin is still a ways 
off.  Someone could also work on these applet bytecode verification errors:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351381

Tom